ACCELERATION TOOLKIT

If you are planning to launch a startup, we provide a complete set of 10 services to support you in all key phases of your startup life cycle. Above all, our overreaching experience will help you develop the complete picture which is required to operate from inception to full scale deployment.We invest as service for equity with the most promising startups.

1

Strategy

Where is your business idea heading to? Who are your competitors? And who your strategic partners?

We provide startups with the method to test their business idea against real market data and forecasts. Establish the market perimeter and position your business proposition with our support.

2

Business modeling

How will you generate business value? What is your engine of growth?

We help you map the key metrics and logics of your business that will guide your operations and enable you to forecast the value of your startup. We will also teach you how to track and adapt the model in order to respond in the most efficient way to real market input.

3

Financials

What are your financial needs? And what the expected return for a potential investor?

It is more than just that. We will help you develop a sound financial model based on your real business metrics and logics. We will teach you all the tricks on how to rule the financials, establish robust forecasts of financial needs and expected return. More important, we will provide you with all the means to negotiate a fair value with any investor.

4

Pitch

How to convey the complexity of your business idea into a 5 minutes presentation? How to do that in a 30 seconds elevator pitch? And how about a 140 character tweet?

State the problem you are solving, shock the target audience with your solution and explain why you, and only you, can really deliver execution. We will guide you in developing your pitch, build the right public standing and deliver the knock out punch to the audience.

5

Lean design and execution

How to optimize your development resources in order to reach your business goals? How to match efficiency with effectiveness?

We will support you in implementing the build-measure-learn lean development life cycle. We will help you encode into your operations the power of business metrics as a guide to the development of the business process and of product design. With our extensive network of highly qualified developers we can also assist you in developing the full live product.

6

Team building

Who does what? Who are the key profiles for your organization? How to get them all rolling along the build-measure-learn lean development life cycle? How to manage flexibility and organization?

We will help you find the missing co-founders and define the right compensations for each member of your team. We will guide you into how to run meetings, execute problem solving techniques and get to manage the high levels of stress when in fool throttle execution mode. And when the business starts to scale, we will help you develop corporate organization.

7

Marketing

Who are your customers? What’s the right value proposition for them? Which means are fit to approach them?

We will teach you how to mold your operations to be customer centric and adapt product design to demand. Always using your business metrics as corner stone for your operations, we will show you how targets, channels, value proposition and messages can be established and tracked in the most efficient way.

8

Business development

How to generate traction to your business? What’s the optimal pipeline to reach your business goals?

Launch a beta program or a smoke test, establish key marketing partners, look out for a first client. We help you kickstart the business generation process and develop operational capacity to scale in order to achieve your business goals.

9

Policy advice

Which are the regulatory and legal barriers that threat the disruptive nature of your business? How to protect your business from policy backfire? Who has the best legal advice for you?

All disruptive business faces policy obstacles that may limit potential growth at birth. Finding the right mix of corporate, regulatory and legal foundations may be crucial to enable the full deployment of your business. We will help you in this by tapping into our extensive network of legal counselors with strong experience in supporting startups.

10

Investor relations

Who are your ideal investors? How to approach and persuade them? How to get a fair deal?

Whether it is cash you need or the demand pull by a corporate investor, we will guide in you in defining the right mix of investors for your startup. Based on our extended investors’ network we will provide you with direct access supporting you all the way. Based on solid financial assessment we will make sure you get the right deal.